Stephen spoor



STEPHEN sPooR, or'

PHELPS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 86,108, dated .Tamm/ry 19, 1869.

COOKING-UTENSILI.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part Of theSame- To all whom 'it .ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN SPOOR, of Phelps, in the county of Ontario,and State of New York, have invented an Improved Construction ofCooking-Utensils; andI do hereby declare -that the following is `a fulland exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification- Figure 1 being arepresentation of a heating-stove, showing the method of using myimproved cookingutensils. g

Figures 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 7, respectively, side and top views of aboiler, al tea-kettle, and an oven, constructed in my improved manner.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The purpose of my invention is to produce a set of cooking-utensils,which can be inserted in openings in the vertical or upright sides ofstoves, and be selfbalancing or self-supporting therein.

They are intended particularly1 to be applied to heating-stoves, and tobe inserted in door, window, or other openings in the sides thereof.They are especially applicable and useful for magazine-stoves, such ashavelilluminating-doors or mica windows, the frames of which swing away,and leave openingsinto the combustion-chamber thereof.

The cooking-utensils, in order to be admitted in such openings, have oneportion, A, thereof of a size to nearly ll, and a shape to properly fittherein, and these portions comprise a suiiioient proportion of thewhole vessel to rest supported in the openings, either by overbalancin gthe portion B, which remains outside of the stove, or, if not thusoverbalancing, by fitting sufficiently close therein, and having enoughdepth, from front to rear, to tip and bind in the openings, and thus besupported.

Generally, in the magazii'ie-stoves 'now in use, the faces around thewindow-openings are inclined inward a little, from bottom to top, sothat the utensils rest against the sides all the more securely.

The utensil, when inserted, rests on the lower edgc or ledge of theopening, or, when the door or windowframe turns downward into ahorizontal position, as shown in fig. 1, it may rest partly thereon.

As the form of these openings is generally rectan gular, or nearly so,the portion A of each utensil approximates thereto; but the corners maybe rounded oi.

Between the portions A and B is a flange or shoulder,.a, to bear againstthe side of the stove, fix the positiouof the utensil, and cover thejoints around it.

The portion A, including one-half, or thereabout, of the whole utensil,being inserted within the stove, is subjected to the immediate action ofthe heat in the tire-pot, or combustion-chamber, so that the viands arecooked, or the liquids heated, rapidly therein.

There are, or may be, nent-holes in the top of the portion A, for thesteam to escape by into the stove, from the boilers or tea-kettles, andfor vapors and smoke to escape through into thestove from the oven,boiler, or griddle.

The lid, bof the boiler or tea-kettle, figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, may be onthe outside portion, B, but might be on the inserted portion, A. For theoven, figs. 6 and 7, broiler', or griddle, a door, c, in front, is mostconvenient.

The handle or bail, d, of the boiler, gs. 2 and 3, is hinged to theprojecting portion B, so located as to suspend it centrally, as nearlyas possible.

It may have ahandle, f, in front, instead of Y or in addition to thebail d.

The handle or bail, g, of the teafkettle may be hinged at one end to thetop of the portion B, as near as possible to the shoulder or flange a,and at the other end to an ear on the spout h.

I am aware that boilers have been so constructed and arranged as toderive their heat through the side or rear plates of a stove, but insuch cases the boiler has been supported by legs upon the same, or byother means than the lopening in the 'side of the stove. Therefore I donot claim broadly such an arrangement of a boiler; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cooking-utensil, constructed and arranged to tit in the door orwindow-opening of a heating-stove, and partially project into theinterior of the same, so as to be selfsustained, or supported therein,substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

2. Cooking-utensils, so constructed and arranged as to project throughthe side of a heating-stove, into the interior thereof, and be subjectedto the immediate heat ofthe fire in the combustion-chamber, for thepurpose set fort-h.

The above specification signed by me, rthis 12th day of November, 1868.

STEPHEN SPOOR. Witnesses:

J. S. BROWN, EDM. F. BROWN.

